On Sunday 13 February 2005 16:43, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >Until recently I had a DDS3 tape streamer. Then it broke down a few >weeks ago and I bought a DDS4 tape streamer. I therefore have a lot > of DDS3 tapes which I like to use for incremental back-ups because > the new tape streamer can also handle DDS3 tapes. I will then ear > mark the DDS4 tapes for full back-ups. Is that possible and how can > that be accomplished?
Not with only one config setup. And with 2, then the one you would like to use for incrementals doesn't know anything about the fulls, so it gets a tummy ache. Amanda's record keeping is going to make that difficult. From my own experience with DDS2, if the DDS3's have more than 20 passes on them, I think I'd retire them one by one, replacing them with DDS4's made by dd'ing the label block from the DDS3, and dd'ing it back to the DDS4 tapes, thereby keeping amanda out of the loop until such time as all the DDS3's have been cycled out. At that point, change the tapetype by running an amtapetype to make a new tapetype descriptor and edit its use into your amanda config. I just had an intrigueing idea though. What if there were two identical config dirs setup, each subdir for the data amanda keeps was lndir'ed to yet a third dir which was then the common dir for all of amanda's data. The only real files in the two config dirs would be the amanda.conf, and the tapelist. It seems like a bit of hassle for the initial setup, but could anyone throw a showstopper into this picture? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.33% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
